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- From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Using DOS TCP/IP Apps under OS/2 2.x
- Message-ID: <C1JHIx.1yA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: UIUC College of Agriculture
- References: <93026.111925FARID@FRECP12.BITNET> <1993Jan26.171936.26519@midway.uchicago.edu> <aml4.43.728105459@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:01:31 GMT
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- aml4@po.cwru.edu (Adam M. Lambert) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan26.171936.26519@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >>It will work if you have Network Transport Services/2, which provides
- >>802.2 services to the DOS sessions. Assuming your software can speak
- >>802.2, you'll be all set.
-
- > After following the discussions about NTS/2, I have a question. Does
- >this only work with token ring? (it seems that anyone who has talked about
- >it is running token... and only token)
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- NTS/2 works fine with ethernet - AS LONG AS you don't want to do what the
- original poster wants to. Namely, the Virtual 802.2 emulation in the VDMs
- does not support ethernet flavored packet drivers. Packet driver <->NDIS
- shims do not work either. Only strict 802.2 applications are said to work
- with 802.2 in VDMs on ethernet, and I don't have any of these to test. ALl
- I do know, is that the IBMTOKEN.COM packet driver, which is supposed to use
- the 802.2 interface, does not work on an ethernet equiped machine, though it
- appears to initialize properly.
-
- More than that, I do not know... (All of this made my day after being told
- throughout development of NTS/2 that it would solve my problems with programs
- that require packet driver support. :-( )
-
- Don
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